Vocabulary

• family members: People related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
• at once: Immediately; without delay
• deal with
• call for: To demand, need or require (an action or thing)
• back to normal: Returned to the usual or expected state or condition.
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• in danger: Exposed to the risk of harm, injury, or loss.
• no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
• have to: Must do
• make of: To understand or have an opinion about something
• back out: To say you will now not do something you promised
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• resilience: Ability to recover quickly from something bad
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• failure: When things go wrong; lack of function
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• frustration: Annoyance because things don't go the way you want
• frustrating: To make annoyed because things don't go well
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• catastrophe: Very bad disaster causing much suffering, etc.
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• strip: To remove your clothes (often sexily for someone)
• comprehensive: Including most or all things
• role: Character played by an actor
• responsibility: Job, task or thing you are expected to look after
• stage: To organize an event to gain public interest
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• hostage: Person held prisoner to get a demand satisfied
• sorrow: Deep sadness caused by a loss
• trip: To release an electrical switch
• coalition: Union of separate political parties
• ongoing: Continuing to exist or be in progress
• terrible: Very bad; horrible
• remind: To cause someone to remember what they forgot
• mediterranean: Describing the sea between Italy and Africa
• minister: An official who heads a government department
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• humanitarian: Person who tries to help those in a crisis
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• point: An item to be discussed
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• diplomacy: Tactful handling of sensitive relationships
• specialist: Person who works in one specific area or field
• ceasefire: Agreement by two sides in a war to stop fighting
• extremist: (Of politics, etc.) far stronger than the norm
• muslim: Of or relating to Islam